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Things to know about our book club: Our book club began in Glenview during the big snow in 1967 when two mothers, snowed in with young children, decided to organize a neighborhood book club for much-needed intellectual stimulation. We started with six members and an ambitious reading list that included Honore de Balzac's “Cousin Bette,” Franz Kafka's “The Trial,” Thomas Mann's “The Magic Mountain,” James Joyce's “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” and Stendhal's “The Red and the Black.” We now have 15 members who live in the northern suburbs. Our daughters love books; two are founding members of a...

Updated ... By August (1994), it was over. It didn't matter that Democrats outnumbered Republicans in the Senate by 56 to 44 and in the House by 257 to 176. Health care was a lost cause. Republican Senator Bob Packwood boasted ...

Ernesto Sabato
Argentine writer presided over probe of rulers
Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato, 99, a widely admired intellectual who presided over a probe into the crimes committed by the nation's military rulers, died Saturday of complications from...

Christa Wolf, one of Germany's most celebrated writers for her depictions of life in the former communist East, but who was later damaged by revelations she collaborated with its secret police, has died. She was 82.
Wolf died Thursday in Berlin,...

Actor Ryan Reynolds has listed for sale the Los Feliz hills house he bought with his then-wife, actress Scarlett Johansson, in 2010.
Priced at $3.65 million, the 1969 Buff & Hensman-designed Wong House has walls of glass that capture views of...

“Project X” puts you right in the center of the action—in this case, what may be the biggest onscreen party of all time. Or to put it another way, says “Project X” co-star Jonathan Daniel Brown, the movie has an “anti-authoritarian” vibe similar to the...